So fun! I rewatched it with my husband a year or so ago. I also like to rewatch Once More with Feeling, Amends (at Christmas), Hush and some others periodically. Season one is my least favorite, however, so I often skip it.

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Huh. I just watched s01e01, and apparently I hadn't seen it before. I wonder if I've seen any of the first season. I can't recall at what point I first started watching. Everyone looks so young, and the acting and sfx were so bad!

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I was excited about this thread but since I'm a first time watcher, I'm going to skip it

I was going to try and rewatch Buffy. Last time I tried but only got thru season one and two and just couldn't get into it at all I stopped. I may retry again with this thread. I am a big Angel fan and love Firefly. For some reason Buffy never pinged me.

I was excited about this thread but since I'm a first time watcher, I'm going to skip it

When I suggested it, I was thinking more along the lines of a "watch along with Anubys" spoiler-free thread, similar to how we did the recent Supernatural thread with Photoshopgrl. I was also thinking it wouldn't start until he was ready for it. Looks like it took itself a different direction.

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Huh. I just watched s01e01, and apparently I hadn't seen it before. I wonder if I've seen any of the first season. I can't recall at what point I first started watching. Everyone looks so young, and the acting and sfx were so bad!

I know, I was thinking the same thing. But I know I've seen it before since I have the DVD set and watched the whole thing when I first got it. I so did not remember that Darla was there! I'm just getting old.

When I suggested it, I was thinking more along the lines of a "watch along with Anubys" spoiler-free thread, similar to how we did the recent Supernatural thread with Photoshopgrl. I was also thinking it wouldn't start until you were ready for it. Looks like it took itself a different direction.

From very first the moment of S1E1, I knew that damned Whedon was gonna get me with more than a few gotchas!

The very first scene opens and we see some kids up to some mischief. I knew that sweet blonde schoolgirl was in danger, I just knew it.

Ooops! OMG! She's the vampire!! How cool was that?

I really only watched all of the first three seasons. I fell in love love love with Cordelia, and I had to follow her to Angel. I caught a few more eps of Buffy from then on, but nothing too regularly.

Yes. The show preceded (common) availability of both widescreen and HDTV in the United States. HDTV scripted programming didn't generally occur until the 2000's. Buffy began in 1997 and concluded in 2003.

(Also keep in mind that Buffy was broadcast on The WB initially, then UPN, both lower rated startup networks whose affiliates generally would not have had money or resources to be early adopters of digital or HDTV broadcasts.)

Since I just watched them, I could safely say you could watch 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, and get the best of Season 1. Of course the other episodes may have some small great Whedon moments, parts of them are just bad. Those eps above would make sure you get most of the important overarching plot.

I watched all 7 seasons in a blurry haze a few years back. I'm re-watching slowly now with my wife and a couple of friends. I remember thinking that the show started getting good at the beginning of season 2. I think I was mistaken - it only just started getting good near the end of the 2nd season. Until then it was "bad good" as my wife says - silly and campy but fun to watch so we can comment on the weird clothes and weird sayings of the day. We have taken to talking about "jacking in" since watching a related episode of Buffy. Also we mention "jamming on" things.

But other great shows (The Office, P&R) also had terrible first seasons and became something great. Of course, those two are half-hour shows and the first season was something like 6 eps, whereas Buffy was an hour-long show and the first season was 12 eps.

I'd be totally in for a re-watch, but I'm so hopelessly behind my regular shows due to a recent vacation that I have to catch up over Christmas or my DVR is going to explode. Maybe this summer...

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I watched all 7 seasons in a blurry haze a few years back. I'm re-watching slowly now with my wife and a couple of friends. I remember thinking that the show started getting good at the beginning of season 2. I think I was mistaken - it only just started getting good near the end of the 2nd season. Until then it was "bad good" as my wife says - silly and campy but fun to watch so we can comment on the weird clothes and weird sayings of the day. We have taken to talking about "jacking in" since watching a related episode of Buffy. Also we mention "jamming on" things.

I would say early in Season 2. I think we get introduced to certain new characters around episode 4. That's a good indicator that season 2 will be better and continue getting better.